Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 9, 2014

Although it might seem that greater control and stronger enforcement are beneficial—it is important for firms to protect key trade secrets, after all—the evidence shows that these changes critically undermine employee incentives to learn and innovate. They invest less in acquiring knowledge, reducing their skills and innovativeness.

Incentives 13

Incentives Policies Innovation Human Capital 13

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 27, 2016

Managing Across Cultures. managers believed that open, flexible workspaces fostered collaboration and innovation and the center was established some distance from the main campus, which U.S. With these groups, we noticed that management practices that worked well in Germany and the U.S. You and Your Team Series. In the U.S.,

Innovation 11

Innovation Altman System Technology 11

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 5, 2013

With scarcely any help from management, knowledge workers can increase their productivity by 20%. Yet here is the challenge you face as a senior executive: You cannot manage your knowledge workers in the traditional and intrusive way you might have done with manual workers. And who doesn''t want more hours in the day?

Productivity 8

Productivity Products Peer Review Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 15, 2016

“The manager might ask the person who’s leaving to write a [report] to share his knowledge, but often there’s just not enough time for that,” says John Sullivan, professor of management at San Francisco State University, HR expert, and author of 1000 Ways to Recruit Top Talent. Principles to Remember.

Learning-by-Doing 8

Learning-by-Doing Storytelling Cooper Case Study 8